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LYON, France – INTERPOL has offered its full support to French, Tunisian, Kuwaiti and Somalian authorities following four separate terrorist attacks which have left more than 80 people dead and many more injured.INTERPOL’s 24-hour Command and Coordination Centre (CCC) at its General Secretariat headquarters is in close contact with the National Central Bu...

LYON, France – At the request of French authorities, INTERPOL is deploying an Incident Response Team (IRT) to support the investigation into the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps which killed 150 people.Based at the&nbsp;French investigation crisis cell in Paris&nbsp;the team, initially comprising four experts, will provide Disaster Victim Identi...

LYON, France –&nbsp; The head of INTERPOL has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the offices of a magazine in Paris in which 12 people were killed.“On behalf of the world police community INTERPOL condemns this horrendous and cold-blooded attack in the strongest terms and extends its condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims,” said...

LYON, France – At the request of UK authorities INTERPOL has issued a Yellow Notice, or missing persons alert, for a five-year-old British boy removed from a hospital by his parents.Ashya King who has a brain tumour, was taken from Southampton General Hospital at around 2pm on Thursday 28 August by his parents, 51-year-old Brett King and 45-year-old Naghe...

LYON, France – INTERPOL today offered its congratulations to its President, Mireille Ballestrazzi, following the announcement by authorities in France that she had been appointed Central Director of the French Judicial Police (Directeur Central de la Police Judiciaire).With her appointment also meaning she will head INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in P...

LYON, France – France’s Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls has formally presented INTERPOL President Mireille Ballestrazzi with the medal of the Commander of the Légion d’honneur.At a ceremony at the Ministry of the Interior in Paris on Thursday 14 November, President Ballestrazzi officially received the distinction to which she was nominated in France...

LYON, France – Director General of the French National Police, Claude Baland, today met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble at the world police body’s General Secretariat headquarters, underscoring the close relationship between INTERPOL and France.The meeting focused on a range of law enforcement issues affecting national and international se...

LYON, France – Senior representatives from governments, law enforcement, industry, security and academia from around the world are gathering in Lyon for the first Technology Against Crime forum to identify and develop technology-led responses to evolving security challenges.Co-hosted by France's Ministry of the Interior and INTERPOL, the two-day conferenc...

LYON, France – National and international security issues topped the agenda for France’s Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls’s first visit to the INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon.The meeting with INTERPOL President Mireille Ballestrazzi, Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and other senior INTERPOL officials provided an overview of the wo...

ROME, Italy – INTERPOL’s 81st General Assembly has closed with delegates electing as the new President of INTERPOL Mireille Ballestrazzi, Deputy Central Director of the French Judicial Police.Mrs Ballestrazzi said she felt a great sense of pride and joy to have been elected as the President of INTERPOL and looked forward to serving all of INTERPOL’s 190 m...

LYON, France – The suspected mastermind behind a global car smuggling ring, estimated to have trafficked luxury and sports vehicles worth around EUR 6 million since 2009, has been arrested following an INTERPOL-coordinated operation.The Russian national was taken into custody in Venice, Italy following INTERPOL’s Operation Eastbound which coordinated the...

LYON, France ‒ The arrest in Germany of Luka Rocco Magnotta, a Canadian national suspected of murder and the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice for internationally-wanted persons, highlights the essential role of international police cooperation and sharing intelligence in fugitive investigations, a senior INTERPOL official has said.At the request of Canad...

LYON, France – Today’s successful resolution of the criminal investigation by French authorities into the series of deadly shootings in Toulouse in Southwest France by Mohamed Merah in which seven people, including three children, were murdered, has been praised by INTERPOL. Head of the world police body, Secretary General Ronald K. Noble commended the va...

LYON, France – A visit to INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters saw France’s Minister of Sport, David Douillet updated on the range of the world police body’s security initiatives to support law enforcement worldwide in combating all types of illicit activity relating to sport.High on the agenda was INTERPOL’s joint efforts with the World Anti-Dopin...

LYON, France – France’s Minister of Justice, Michel Mercier, today met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble at the world police body’s General Secretariat headquarters, underlining the close relationship between INTERPOL and France which has hosted the organization since 1946.The Minister discussed a range of law enforcement issues affecting na...

LYON, France – Specialist dealers and collectors are being warned about the illegal sale of the so-called ‘Lava Treasure’ of ancient Roman gold coins and plates after a number of items were recovered from the open market. INTERPOL and French police are working to recover the ancient coins.The rare collection, which dates back to 300 AD, is believed to hav...

LYON, France - The Special Representative of France's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs in charge of coordination of the international war against piracy, Jocelyne Caballero, has met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble as part of the close collaboration between France and the world police body on enhancing international efforts against...

LYON, France – France’s Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, has met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble to discuss a range of policing issues aimed at safeguarding national and international security.The visit, which underlines the close relationship between France and INTERPOL whose world headquarters were established in the country in 1...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An INTERPOL operation targeting 207 internationally-wanted fugitives wanted for serious crimes including murder, kidnapping, organized crime and child sexual abuse believed to be hiding in South America has led to arrests across the continent and new investigative leads established for almost a quarter.Investigative leads develop...

Over&nbsp; 800 delegates from intergovernmental organizations, national governments, enforcement agencies and business from&nbsp; more than 100 countries convened today in Paris to address the serious global impact of the growing trade in counterfeit and pirated goods and the need to build respect for intellectual property in a balanced and sustainable wa...

LYON, France – Fake goods worth more than USD 200 million have been seized and nearly 1,000 people arrested in a series of operations co-ordinated by INTERPOL across South America targeting organized criminal counterfeiting networks.Carried out under the auspices of Operation Jupiter in partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO), the year-long...

LYON, France – Tackling cross-border crime threats through collaboration was the focus of a visit on Wednesday to INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters by France’s Secretary of State for Justice, Jean-Marie Bockel (pictured second from right).A meeting between Mr Bockel and INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble underlined the importance of inte...

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued a global alert featuring photos of the five paintings stolen from the Modern Art Museum in Paris as part of its ongoing assistance to French authorities to locate and recover the masterpieces worth an estimated EUR 100 million.Images of each of the oil paintings stolen in the early hours of Thursday 20 May have been circ...

LYON, France – A man wanted in connection with the murder of a British woman in May 2010 has been arrested in Spain following an international investigation involving Spanish, UK and French police and INTERPOL’s Fugitive Investigative Support unit at its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon.David Baxendale was taken into custody in Fuengirola on the C...

LYON, France - An international operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL targeting the illegal trade in traditional medicines containing protected wildlife products has resulted in a series of arrests worldwide and the seizure of thousands of illegal medicines worth more than EUR 10 million.National wildlife enforcement authorities, police, customs and speciali...

An international week of action targeting the online sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines has resulted in a series of arrests and the seizure of thousands of potentially harmful medical products.In response to an ever-increasing number of websites supplying dangerous and illegal medicines, Operation Pangea II involving 24 countries was co-ordinated b...

An international alert has been issued at the request of French authorities after a man accused of two murders escaped from a prison in Auxerre on Tuesday.Jean-Pierre Treiber is believed to have escaped during a prison workshop when he hid himself in a cardboard box which was then taken out of the jail in a van.The 46-year-old is accused of killing two wo...

On 4 June 2008, French police recovered four valuable paintings stolen in an armed robbery from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice on 5 August 2007. During the operation, eight suspects were arrested.All the paintings were included in INTERPOL’s works of art database. The painting by Jan Bruegel the Elder entitled 'Allegory of Earth' featured on the INTERPOL...

A Rwandan national wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, has been arrested in France.Claver Kamana was arrested by French police in Annecy on Tuesday following close co-operation between the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, the INTERPOL National Central B...

A man wanted for crimes against humanity and other serious offences in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, has been arrested by French police.Marcel Bivugabagabo was arrested in Toulouse on Tuesday following close co-operation between the INTERPOL General Secretariat, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Ki...

LYON, France – Close co-operation between INTERPOL, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the French Ministries of Justice and the Interior has led to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.French police in Carcassonne in southern France arrested Dominique Ntawukuriryay...

PARIS, France - A Rwandan man wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity has been arrested by French police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after intense international co-ordination between law enforcement officials from Rwanda, France, the U.S. and INTERPOL.Isaac Kamali had travelled from France to America in possession of a valid French passp...

LYON, France – INTERPOL’s database of stolen and lost travel documents recently helped border police at Lyon Saint Exupery Airport identify as stolen two passports used by a people-smuggling operation to move migrants from China to Europe.Two Asian women were detained on 8 June after airport officials checked their Japanese passports against INTERPOL’s da...

LYON, France – A transnational operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization targeting organized criminal counterfeiting networks across 13 countries in South America has resulted in more than 600 arrests and the seizure of fake goods worth 50 million US dollars. Carried out under the umbrella of Operation Jupiter, goods recovered...